J.J. Abrams hops onto the book-wagon

J.J. Abrams now runs the world’s two biggest sci-fi franchises. So what’s he doing venturing into literature?

THE Ubergeek. The Boy With All the Toys. The Lord Of The Nerds. It might seem as if the most significant achievement of Jeffrey Jacob “JJ” Abrams, screenwriter, actor, producer, director, composer and author, is to have made fanboy culture part of the mainstream. But the publication of “his” first novel – more on those inverted commas anon – also shows that the avant-garde and the experimental are in the ascendant.